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When Leaders Ignore the No Asshole Rule
Originally published on Rough Edges . There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high perfor…
Overcoming LLM Limitations
I recently shipped a small research agent that beats three recurring LLM problems: stale training data, hallucinated facts, and arithmetic errors. Ins…
Loop Engineering: The Next Step After Prompt Engineering for AI Agents
Loop Engineering: The Next Step After Prompt Engineering for AI Agents The AI development landscape has undergone a fundamental shift. For years, prom…
Why Your AI Engineer Hire Costs 56% More Than You Budgeted
The Budget You Approved Isn't the Budget You'll Pay You approved $180K for a senior AI engineer. Eighteen months later, you've spent $282K and you're …
Navigating Schema Shifts: Keeping Your Streaming Pipeline Smooth for Everyone
The Inevitable Shift: Schema Evolution in Streaming Pipelines In the dynamic world of data, change is the only constant. Streaming pipelines, with the…
The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer: How the Harness Holds Quality (Series Part 5)
Hi, I'm Ryan , CTO at airCloset. Disclaimer : "cortex" in this article is the internal codename for an AI platform built in-house at airCloset. It is …
Low Pass Filter Design: Setting the Cut-off with Two Components
Plug an oscilloscope probe into almost any real circuit and the trace will be fuzzy. Riding on top of the signal you actually want is a haze of higher…
Why EIA-96 SMD Resistor Codes Don't Match Their Resistance Values
The first time I encountered an EIA-96 resistor , I assumed the marking would tell me the resistance value directly. I was troubleshooting a PCB and f…
The Last Capacity Planning Sheet You'll Ever Need
Originally published at theendofcoding.com . It's the last week of the quarter. The team is going to miss two of the five committed epics — they alrea…
Fallacies of GenAI Development #8: More AI Agents Means More Productivity
This is the eighth and final post in a series on the false assumptions teams make when building with generative AI. The series began with the observat…
FDM 3D Printing in 2026: Engineering Structural Parts Beyond Prototyping
For years, Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)—also known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)—was primarily viewed as a tool for rapid prototyping. Engine…
The 60x Gap — Why AI Feels Faster but Actually Slows You Down
In late 2025, the CTO of a mid-sized SaaS company saw a report — after adopting AI coding tools, his engineering team "felt 20% faster." He cut 30% of…
Fallacies of GenAI Development #3: You Can Verify AI Output With Another AI
This is the third in a series of eight posts on the false assumptions teams make when building with generative AI. Fallacy #1 covered why faster gener…
BLDC Motor Torque Density Optimization for Robot Joints: A Practical Design Guide
BLDC Motor Torque Density Optimization for Robot Joints: A Practical Design Guide Introduction In robotic joint design, torque density (torque per uni…
The Bolted Flange Joint: Why the Bolts Carry Far More Than the Pressure
A flanged pipe joint looks simple: two raised faces, a gasket between them, a ring of bolts pulling them together. Yet the gasketed bolted flange is o…
The Engineering Manager Is the Most Informed Person in the AI Room
Engineering managers are almost entirely absent from the AI transformation discourse. There's a structural reason for that, and understanding it is th…
Intel Targets World's First Mass Production of Glass Substrates for AI Chip Packaging
Intel Foundry's Rio Rancho Facility Moves Toward Glass Substrate Volume Production Reports from Wccftech and Forbes (May 26, 2026) indicate that Intel…
Stress Concentration Factor: Why a Small Hole Can Triple Local Stress
A crack in an aircraft window, a fracture starting at a bolt hole, a shaft that snaps at the shoulder where the diameter steps down. These failures sh…
Agent Engineering Is No Longer a Research Role. Here's What Changed.
Two years ago, if you searched for "agent developer" job postings, you'd find research positions at labs. The work was exploratory: prompting techniqu…
The Fallacies of GenAI Development
In 1994, Peter Deutsch published the Fallacies of Distributed Computing — eight assumptions that every developer building distributed systems makes, d…
Bearing Life (L10): What the Catalog Number Really Tells You
Open any rolling-bearing catalog and you will find, next to each part, a number called the dynamic load rating, C. It is tempting to read it as "the l…
I Built a Free Metal Weight Calculator — Here's the Math Behind It
I'm not a professional developer. I'm a steel fabricator who got tired of calculating pipe weights on paper. So I built MetalWeightPro — a free, brows…
PID Tuning That Actually Converges: Ziegler-Nichols and the Root Locus View
The PID controller is the workhorse of industrial control. It runs temperature loops, motor drives, flow valves, and flight surfaces. The algorithm it…
Differential Pair Impedance: Why USB and HDMI Routing Is a Geometry Problem
Every fast interface on a modern board — USB, HDMI, PCIe, Ethernet, SATA — sends its data as a differential pair: two traces carrying equal and opposi…
Reading a Psychrometric Chart Without Getting Lost
The psychrometric chart is one of the most information-dense diagrams in engineering. To a newcomer it looks like a tangle of curved and slanted lines…
Hertz Contact Stress: How to Predict Pressure Where Two Surfaces Meet
When a hardened steel ball rests on a flat plate, the entire load passes through a contact patch smaller than a pinhead. Intuitively you might expect …
Raising a Good Junior: What AI Gets Wrong About Knowledge and What It Means for the Next Generation
A friend of mine, Jose, sent me a conversation he'd had with an AI assistant about an article he'd been reading. The article was The Tacit Dimension b…
Some Notes on OMO Orchestrator Claude Alternatives
I'm a big fan of my current agentic coding stack: OpenCode for harnessing basics, skills, and integrations OhMyOpenagent for superpower-level agents (…
Tech Burnout Isn't a Resilience Problem — It's an Organizational Design Failure
A few days ago, Harsh Tiwari published a piece on Dev.to that's worth your time: What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You) . It …